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ATTENTION
Volunteers are needed for a three (3) day search sponsored by the Reservation Safety Committee and BIA Law and Order, and Fish and Game Department, for an all out attempt to try and locate a Mr. Luke Soloman Grey Bear who has been missing for the past three months.
All interested person (s) report to the BIA jail in Poplar on Weds., October 26, 1983, at 8:00 a.m., If you have any extra horses available they will be appreciated. Lunch will be served by the Reservation Safety Committee. If you have any further questions, please call Captain of Police, Ron Silk at 768-3207; Leland Spotted Bird, Fish & Game supervisor at 768-5155, ext. 416 Agency Special Officer, Roy Trottier, 768-3310.
All help will be greatly appreciated. The search will be conducted on horseback, vehicle, and foot patrol.
Ft. Peck, Blackfeet Form Industrial Joint Venture
WOTANIN
Assiniboine
Sioux I
October 21.1983
VOL 14 NO.jf^�
On Wednesday, October 12, 1983, the tribally-owned and operated light industrial operation of A & S Products Company of Frazer, was awarded a significant plastics injection molding contract in excess of $500,000.00.
The contract was awarded to the Tribes by the Blackfeet Indian Writing Company of Browning, Montana. The contract is for a 5-year duration for the fabrication of various plastic styrene and polypro pen components for use in the production of various writing instruments by the Blackfeet Corporation.
Tribal Chairman Norman Hollow called the joint venture between the two tribes as
"historical". This is the first time 2 tribes have entered into a joint venture agreement for industrial developments.
The contract is of paramount importance because it continues to prove that the Native American can achieve periodic progress toward economic self-sufficiency within the Native American economic infrastructure through the performance of mutually beneficial economic development transactions for both Reservations.
The A & S Products Company is governed by a 5-member Board of pirectors. The Directors are: Harold Dean Blount, President; Lyle Firemoon; Elliott Todd; Walter Clark and Cliff Quam.
(Continued on p. 2 under A&S Products)
Assiniboine Claims To Be Paid In November ; Long Wait At End
The Assinibione Claims will be paid out to all those who received the last Assiniboine payment in 1973 and those that were enrolled by October 13. 1983. The payment will be made by November 21, 1983, according to BIA officials.
President Reagan signed the
Bill for the $19 million
Assiniboine Claim on October
13. According to the Bill, the day
the President signs the Bill, that
day will also be the cutoff day for
new enrollees. The claims monies
will be split between the
Assiniboine tribes of Fort Peck
and Fort Belknap. Fort Peck will
receive 57.5 percent of the claim,
or $10,996,299.18 as of Oct. 17
when these figures were given at a
meeting of the Assiniboines. An
estimated $115,000 for the
Assiniboine Enrollment Committeers work on screening the
Assiniboine rolls will be deducted. The Claims will then set aside 70 percent of the monies for a per capita payment to those enrolled in the Assiniboine tribe. Seventy percent is over $7 million, but the exact amount is also subject to change before the payment due to interest earnings. Thirty percent of the monies will be set aside for the Assiniboine Tribe. The over 3200 enrollees will each receive over $2000.00 apiece as a per capita payment.
A gathering of assiniboines - A large group of Assiniboine tribal members attended a meeting called to "clear the air" on a list of names whose enrollment had discrepancies as found by the Assiniboine Enrollment Committee. Some mem-
bers converged on the meeting fully expecting to argue against the list only to discover the list would not deny anyone their right to share in the Assinibione Claim.
The road to the Assiniboine Claims pavout has been controversial. There were differences between the Fort Peck and Fort Belknap Assiniboines on how to split the monies. Fort Peck wanted it split according to population; Ft. Belknap wanted it split 50-50. After many meetings, it was finally split according to population.
Then an Assiniboine General Council resolution moved that the claims be paid out to only
those Assiniboines who were one fourth or more Assiniboine. The Assiniboines with less than one-fourth blood degree rallied forth and got this changed at a June, 1983 Assiniboine General Council that was called to settle this issue once more.
The June 3 General Council meeting authorized the payment be made to all properly enrolled Assiniboines and that the Assiniboine Enrollment Committee screen the Assiniboine rolls. This was voted on 191 for and
160 against.
On Oct. 11, the Assiniboine Enrollment Committee presented their findings to the Tribal Executive Board, who made a motion that the four lists the Assiniboines presented to them be turned over to the Tribal Enrollment. That action was later rescinded.
The Assiniboine Enrollment Committee, after screening the rolls, came out with 4 lists.
(Continued on p. 2 Assiniboine Claims)
WOLF POINT, MAX K.AGREEMENT
WOLF POINT - The Wolf Point Community has reached an agreement with Max K. Construction, the prime contractor of the communities' industrial building, on wages, hiring practices and quality of subcontractor work.
The Community heard a report from the seven member Review Committee that was established to look into allegations by some community members that Max K. Construction was paying its' local Indian workers low wages and had discriminated against
employees who complained about the wages by laying them off. At a special meeting Oct. 3 the Review Committee reported to the community that four issues had been resolved.
Questions on the quality of the cement work subcontracted to Wolf Point community member John Olson were put aside by the results of testing, which found that the cement work did meet P.S.I, (pounds per square inch) requirements of the building specifications. Olson has agreed to grind a floor down and Max K.
Construction is withholding $5000 from Olson, at Olsons request, unti! the work is completed.
Max K. Construction also agreed to pay local Indian employees $8.50 an hour and to hire a female, the Review Committee reported, and Fred McGeshick was reinstated.
According to minutes of the Oct. 3 meeting, Review Committee member Earlene Azure stated, "Max Krikorian (owner of Max K. Construction) had an agreement signed by all the (Continued p. 2 Wolf point building)
THE RESULTS OF THE TRIBAL ELECTION WILL BE BROADCAST OVER Wolf Point radio stations KVCK and the FM STATION Y22 beginning at 9 p.m. on On election night, Oct. 29.
According to one of the coordinators, Arlie Diserly, the results will be broadcast 2 or 3 times an hour. Set up at the tribal building, election headquarters, Diserly and Cyril Iron Ring will be in direct communication with each voting district calculating the results for your listening pleasure.
Tribal Election Special To Be Out By Friday Noon Oct. 28
HOMECOMING QUEEN MYRLE Faye Peterson, 17, was selected during the past Homecoming weekend. Myrle, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Helmer Peterson, is a senior at Poplar. She is in track, student council, Letter Winners, Indian Club and Pep Club. After graduation next spring, Myrle plans to attend Eastern Montana College or Mary College in Bismarck, ND. Myrle is a member of the Sioux tribe.
FT. KIPP - The Fort Kipp community will dedicate their new activity center on Friday, Oct. 28. The Fort Kipp Celebration Committee will be sponsoring a dance in honor of this dedication. All singers, dancers, spectators welcome. The committee advises people to bring their own chairs. A feed will also be held._
The Fort Kipp community built their new center with their share of Docket 184 monies. The community is expecting many out-of-town visitors to attend this dedication of the building named in honor of one of their outstanding community member, the late Jim Black Dog.
HOUSING REHAB
FUNDS AVAILABLE
The Fort Peck Tribes have announced the availability of housing rehabilitation assistance grants for individually-owned tribal housing units from the Tribal Community Development Block Grant program. Financial ass.stance is currently available
for approximately 272 grants to $870.00 each.
To qualify for the program, interested individuals and households must complete the Tribal "Community Development Block Grant Program" application form and be in compliance with the various eligibility requirements of the program. All applicants are required to provide proot oi-income verification tor
qualification with the 'Total Annual Household Income" section of the application form.
Administration of the program will be provided by the Fort Peck Planning District. Additional in-
formation or application forms may be obtained by contacting Ms. Lois Weeks,
Bookkeeper/Administrator, Fort Peck Planning District, P.O. Box 115, Poplar, Montana 59255, or telephone: 768-5155, extension
313- , .v.
Financial assistance tor the
Tribal Community Development Block Grant Program has been recently provided to the Tribes through a Native American Community Development Block Grant Discretionary program from the Indian Programs.
Mrs Yvonne D. Ryan, Post 54 Auxiliary President; Mrs. Irma Frazler, American Legion and Auxiliary member of Post 54; Mrs. Lillian Ogle, Historian Gold Star Mother, whose son the Nathan Crazy Bull Post 54 was named after; and Mrs. Alice Llum, Auxiliary Chaplain Post 54, attended the Dfat. Convention on Oct. 9 where they received a standing ovation for their rendition of "America" in the Sioux language.
Division of the Denver Regional Office of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

ATTENTION
Volunteers are needed for a three (3) day search sponsored by the Reservation Safety Committee and BIA Law and Order, and Fish and Game Department, for an all out attempt to try and locate a Mr. Luke Soloman Grey Bear who has been missing for the past three months.
All interested person (s) report to the BIA jail in Poplar on Weds., October 26, 1983, at 8:00 a.m., If you have any extra horses available they will be appreciated. Lunch will be served by the Reservation Safety Committee. If you have any further questions, please call Captain of Police, Ron Silk at 768-3207; Leland Spotted Bird, Fish & Game supervisor at 768-5155, ext. 416 Agency Special Officer, Roy Trottier, 768-3310.
All help will be greatly appreciated. The search will be conducted on horseback, vehicle, and foot patrol.
Ft. Peck, Blackfeet Form Industrial Joint Venture
WOTANIN
Assiniboine
Sioux I
October 21.1983
VOL 14 NO.jf^�
On Wednesday, October 12, 1983, the tribally-owned and operated light industrial operation of A & S Products Company of Frazer, was awarded a significant plastics injection molding contract in excess of $500,000.00.
The contract was awarded to the Tribes by the Blackfeet Indian Writing Company of Browning, Montana. The contract is for a 5-year duration for the fabrication of various plastic styrene and polypro pen components for use in the production of various writing instruments by the Blackfeet Corporation.
Tribal Chairman Norman Hollow called the joint venture between the two tribes as
"historical". This is the first time 2 tribes have entered into a joint venture agreement for industrial developments.
The contract is of paramount importance because it continues to prove that the Native American can achieve periodic progress toward economic self-sufficiency within the Native American economic infrastructure through the performance of mutually beneficial economic development transactions for both Reservations.
The A & S Products Company is governed by a 5-member Board of pirectors. The Directors are: Harold Dean Blount, President; Lyle Firemoon; Elliott Todd; Walter Clark and Cliff Quam.
(Continued on p. 2 under A&S Products)
Assiniboine Claims To Be Paid In November ; Long Wait At End
The Assinibione Claims will be paid out to all those who received the last Assiniboine payment in 1973 and those that were enrolled by October 13. 1983. The payment will be made by November 21, 1983, according to BIA officials.
President Reagan signed the
Bill for the $19 million
Assiniboine Claim on October
13. According to the Bill, the day
the President signs the Bill, that
day will also be the cutoff day for
new enrollees. The claims monies
will be split between the
Assiniboine tribes of Fort Peck
and Fort Belknap. Fort Peck will
receive 57.5 percent of the claim,
or $10,996,299.18 as of Oct. 17
when these figures were given at a
meeting of the Assiniboines. An
estimated $115,000 for the
Assiniboine Enrollment Committeers work on screening the
Assiniboine rolls will be deducted. The Claims will then set aside 70 percent of the monies for a per capita payment to those enrolled in the Assiniboine tribe. Seventy percent is over $7 million, but the exact amount is also subject to change before the payment due to interest earnings. Thirty percent of the monies will be set aside for the Assiniboine Tribe. The over 3200 enrollees will each receive over $2000.00 apiece as a per capita payment.
A gathering of assiniboines - A large group of Assiniboine tribal members attended a meeting called to "clear the air" on a list of names whose enrollment had discrepancies as found by the Assiniboine Enrollment Committee. Some mem-
bers converged on the meeting fully expecting to argue against the list only to discover the list would not deny anyone their right to share in the Assinibione Claim.
The road to the Assiniboine Claims pavout has been controversial. There were differences between the Fort Peck and Fort Belknap Assiniboines on how to split the monies. Fort Peck wanted it split according to population; Ft. Belknap wanted it split 50-50. After many meetings, it was finally split according to population.
Then an Assiniboine General Council resolution moved that the claims be paid out to only
those Assiniboines who were one fourth or more Assiniboine. The Assiniboines with less than one-fourth blood degree rallied forth and got this changed at a June, 1983 Assiniboine General Council that was called to settle this issue once more.
The June 3 General Council meeting authorized the payment be made to all properly enrolled Assiniboines and that the Assiniboine Enrollment Committee screen the Assiniboine rolls. This was voted on 191 for and
160 against.
On Oct. 11, the Assiniboine Enrollment Committee presented their findings to the Tribal Executive Board, who made a motion that the four lists the Assiniboines presented to them be turned over to the Tribal Enrollment. That action was later rescinded.
The Assiniboine Enrollment Committee, after screening the rolls, came out with 4 lists.
(Continued on p. 2 Assiniboine Claims)
WOLF POINT, MAX K.AGREEMENT
WOLF POINT - The Wolf Point Community has reached an agreement with Max K. Construction, the prime contractor of the communities' industrial building, on wages, hiring practices and quality of subcontractor work.
The Community heard a report from the seven member Review Committee that was established to look into allegations by some community members that Max K. Construction was paying its' local Indian workers low wages and had discriminated against
employees who complained about the wages by laying them off. At a special meeting Oct. 3 the Review Committee reported to the community that four issues had been resolved.
Questions on the quality of the cement work subcontracted to Wolf Point community member John Olson were put aside by the results of testing, which found that the cement work did meet P.S.I, (pounds per square inch) requirements of the building specifications. Olson has agreed to grind a floor down and Max K.
Construction is withholding $5000 from Olson, at Olsons request, unti! the work is completed.
Max K. Construction also agreed to pay local Indian employees $8.50 an hour and to hire a female, the Review Committee reported, and Fred McGeshick was reinstated.
According to minutes of the Oct. 3 meeting, Review Committee member Earlene Azure stated, "Max Krikorian (owner of Max K. Construction) had an agreement signed by all the (Continued p. 2 Wolf point building)
THE RESULTS OF THE TRIBAL ELECTION WILL BE BROADCAST OVER Wolf Point radio stations KVCK and the FM STATION Y22 beginning at 9 p.m. on On election night, Oct. 29.
According to one of the coordinators, Arlie Diserly, the results will be broadcast 2 or 3 times an hour. Set up at the tribal building, election headquarters, Diserly and Cyril Iron Ring will be in direct communication with each voting district calculating the results for your listening pleasure.
Tribal Election Special To Be Out By Friday Noon Oct. 28
HOMECOMING QUEEN MYRLE Faye Peterson, 17, was selected during the past Homecoming weekend. Myrle, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Helmer Peterson, is a senior at Poplar. She is in track, student council, Letter Winners, Indian Club and Pep Club. After graduation next spring, Myrle plans to attend Eastern Montana College or Mary College in Bismarck, ND. Myrle is a member of the Sioux tribe.
FT. KIPP - The Fort Kipp community will dedicate their new activity center on Friday, Oct. 28. The Fort Kipp Celebration Committee will be sponsoring a dance in honor of this dedication. All singers, dancers, spectators welcome. The committee advises people to bring their own chairs. A feed will also be held._
The Fort Kipp community built their new center with their share of Docket 184 monies. The community is expecting many out-of-town visitors to attend this dedication of the building named in honor of one of their outstanding community member, the late Jim Black Dog.
HOUSING REHAB
FUNDS AVAILABLE
The Fort Peck Tribes have announced the availability of housing rehabilitation assistance grants for individually-owned tribal housing units from the Tribal Community Development Block Grant program. Financial ass.stance is currently available
for approximately 272 grants to $870.00 each.
To qualify for the program, interested individuals and households must complete the Tribal "Community Development Block Grant Program" application form and be in compliance with the various eligibility requirements of the program. All applicants are required to provide proot oi-income verification tor
qualification with the 'Total Annual Household Income" section of the application form.
Administration of the program will be provided by the Fort Peck Planning District. Additional in-
formation or application forms may be obtained by contacting Ms. Lois Weeks,
Bookkeeper/Administrator, Fort Peck Planning District, P.O. Box 115, Poplar, Montana 59255, or telephone: 768-5155, extension
313- , .v.
Financial assistance tor the
Tribal Community Development Block Grant Program has been recently provided to the Tribes through a Native American Community Development Block Grant Discretionary program from the Indian Programs.
Mrs Yvonne D. Ryan, Post 54 Auxiliary President; Mrs. Irma Frazler, American Legion and Auxiliary member of Post 54; Mrs. Lillian Ogle, Historian Gold Star Mother, whose son the Nathan Crazy Bull Post 54 was named after; and Mrs. Alice Llum, Auxiliary Chaplain Post 54, attended the Dfat. Convention on Oct. 9 where they received a standing ovation for their rendition of "America" in the Sioux language.
Division of the Denver Regional Office of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.